On 2/28/16 5:22 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> You give technical explanations of the issue, and there are plenty of those 
> around. And regarding your paper, the fact that an OS upgrade does not 
> require a password is irrelevant here because upgrading the software would 
> not remove the encryption. And if the disk were not encrypted an OS update 
> would not be required.

You've missed the point. The OS 'upgrade' -- or rather, 'degrade' -- 
doesn't remove the encryption, but it enables a brute-force attack on 
the password.

> But what I'm interested in is analysis of the issues at hand in terms of 
> personal privacy/security vs law enforcement.

Two words: open source.


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